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One of the speakers Dr Vandana Shiva is an eco-feminist which is another name for

Among the sponsors of the seminar is something called KOO the Coordination Office of the Austrian Bishops Conference for Development and Mission/ Just Improvement in Climate Campaign (what a mouthful but that is their title!).

They talk about justice when it comes to climate change and did no justice to Father Wagner. They promote tree huggers instead of the veneration of the Cross of Christ, our and their only hope. They want to develop the rest of the world when the Diocese is falling apart in front of their noses. This diocese without new leadership is not a sustainable business and the bishop long overdue for a change in lifestyle. They could certainly do with chopping down a few less trees for the overblown bureaucracy needed to serve the pseudo-clericalised lay elite of the Diocese.

Christ becomes known in the gathered community- did someone never tell them that Christ is behind many of them in the tabernacle. The eternal presence rather than one dependent on the contingent congregation.

Question mark added by the lack of ecclesiastical authority of the Bishop of Linz.

Mosaic on the Petrinum in Linz, formerly their junior seminary.

The line of the Bishops of Linz, including Bishop Ruediger who built a whole new cathedral in honour of the Definition of the Immaculate Conception. The present Diocese is more likely to hold a seminar casting doubt on the whole dogma, rather than defending it's greatness and prophetic nature.